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yeah like 90% of nba players have no chance of contesting his shot theyre just not in the picture

hollinger was making the point that if he's more of a big than a wing he will have to get stronger and develop post moves or else he will be susceptible to being guarded by smaller players (i.e. the porzingis problem). but if he can just shoot over anyone/everyone from anywhere on the court at different angles at a 50%ish rate then there's just nothing you can do

yeah zinger is his closest comp right? pre acl zinger did some pretty sweet stuff like this.

hes like zinger if hed been doing yoga daily since he was 13

and had longer limbs

right exactly. if you go back and watch early zinger he was obv a better athlete than post knee injury but he was still kind of a stiff. he had that real upright walking on stilts aspect to him. wembanyama moves around like he's 6' 7"

also he's gonna get stronger and bigger as he gets into his 20s, i don't want to think about it bc he's not real

every team that's not tanking is dumb though

yeah zinger is his closest comp right? pre acl zinger did some pretty sweet stuff like this.

― Spottie, Thursday, October 6, 2022 5:16 PM (nine minutes ago)

hollinger (on his pod w/ nate duncan) was saying that ralph sampson was the closest comp. i'm not familiar w/ his game but he was a phenom for many of the same reasons as wembanyama, in terms of size and skill. obv it was a whole different game then so in some ways hard to compare but that one felt like a good comp to me. the one thing hollinger said about sampson is that he was known to be kinda soft where wembanyama seems to have the competitive fire you need to be an all time great

imagine if someone had coached sampson to play like wembanyama does, the nba prob wouldve had to shut down

poole v golden state warriors

Bringing back this Klay Thompson quote after news of Draymond Green's altercation with Jordan Poole came out. pic.twitter.com/q0Ik5ZvVa2

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) October 6, 2022

lol great graphic

i mean, something is gonna give between the warriors and klay, draymond, poole, wiggins etc. they're gonna have to shed a $100m+ contract from their payroll at some point.

yeah seems like theyre ok playing the huge tax bill as long as theyre competing but im sure theyre thinking about how to not have all that on the books once the team ages out, maybe they can give dray a big two year deal or something

also seems unlikely management has real warm personal feelings towards him that might lead them to throw him a bone for old times sake

this is not that great tbh

Draymond’s punch on Jordan Poole pic.twitter.com/lsvlCUwZcC

— NBACentral (@TheNBACentral) October 7, 2022

love to punch on my teammates

he sucker punched him, weak shit

he got him too that was not some little jab

Dang that was a hard punch

draymond has to be this way in order to maintain his edge

what a piece of shit

Yikes

suspension incoming

Yah that’s a worse than expected. Could be the end of the line for this squad not really sure how they get through this

yeah thats about as bad as possible, was picturing some little squabble

guess he couldve snuck up and punched him in the back of the head but whatever, hard to say what the fallout will be, maybe poole is chill abt this sort of thing but seems like him and dray already arent great friends so who knows, maybe they just power through it for the good of the business, whatre they gonna do trade him idk

why didnt he punched poole in the playoffs? fuck

we would had a celtics championship rn

lol

if i had to guess a substantial suspension for dray 5-10 games and then try to move forward

Yah but I don’t see how Dray has any voice in the locker room any more. He’s supposed to mentoring all the young guys. He just cost himself a lot of money off that contract talk too. Poole could easily say him or me. Just a lot of things that can happen from here and everyone just moving on and locking back in seems very unlikely

its a fraught situation for sure, i wonder how much this changes his rep amongst the guys tho, i mean hes a famous loose cannon

tho on the other hand he did pretty clearly cross a line, you dont want to have to worry about being sucker punched every time you go to work

guess a lot depends on where pooles at, managements ability to finesse the situation, how sick management is of dray, but ultimately their championship aspirations are done without him so i say they probably just try to make it work, tho maybe theres a path forward if they trade him and a young guy idk

trade poole and not dray lol that would be some sick shit

maybe no one on the team thinks its that big of a deal more of a these things happen type situ

this was some ugly pr btw

Draymond Green was apologetic in aftermath of the altercation with Jordan Poole, but there was a buildup stemming from teammates noticing a change in Poole’s behavior throughout camp with the guard on the verge of securing a lucrative extension, league sources tell @YahooSports.

— Chris Haynes (@ChrisBHaynes) October 6, 2022

I don’t think it’ll be a big deal…they just won a championship

what about the vibes tho

so many teams in turmoil

poole punched for flexing too hard smh

breaking: haters mad

btw feeling better about the celtics turmoil after watching a couple preseason games, the udoka situation doesnt seem to have affected the vibes, obvs still a lot of questions re if the new coaching will be good, and then injury stuff too, but they were totally rolling

obviously a coach was different but last year when gerson rosas got fired everyone was like oh no wolves in turmoil and i'm not sure any of the players really cared either way, does feel like outside speculation can overestimate the impact of that stuff

yeah celtics just had an insanely bad lead up to the season between injuries and scandal, it was worrying, and still is tbf, just less so, maybe

i dont want to get too CELTICS 2010 in here but brogdon is looking like a pretty nice fit

brogdon is a guy who would fit on basically any team

its true, but specifically he seems to be addressing some vital celtics shortcomings in backcourt shooting and playmaking, although he actually hasnt shot well so far but we do know that he can shoot

wonder if kerr has the footage of jordan punching him and has been sitting on it waiting for this moment to be able to show a player and say "see? nbd, we move"

lol he should release it